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Big ideas, solid craft, and a compelling narrative will always triumph in the end over political agitprop." |
Big ideas, solid craft, and a compelling narrative will always triumph in the end over political agitprop." |
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|''[http://www.castaliahouse.com/pink-shirt-propaganda-vs-blue-sff-storytelling/ Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling]'' by '''Scooter'''}} |
|''[http://www.castaliahouse.com/pink-shirt-propaganda-vs-blue-sff-storytelling/ Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling]'' by '''Scooter'''}} |
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{{quote|If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple. |
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And you were also dead wrong — for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer. |
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|'''Mencius Moldbug.''', ''An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives'' (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)}} |
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Revision as of 13:17, 28 November 2020
"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing." — Jorge Luis Borges, "Dead Men's Dialogue", Dreamtigers
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"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality
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"Here’s the good news. —Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling by Scooter
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If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple. —Mencius Moldbug., An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)
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